The City of Clovis Lodges Tax Board met on March 10, 2026, at 5:33 PM to review applications for lodging tax funding from multiple event organizers. The meeting included roll call (Commissioners present: Freddie Bryant, Garza, Latasha Padilla, Mel Epinether, Jonathan Nelson, Thomas Martin) and approval of the January 13 meeting minutes. No public comments or consent calendar were noted. The board discussed each application but did not take any votes; funding decisions will be made at a future meeting.
Good evening, everybody. It is five thirty-three on March tenth. We will call the City of Clovis Lodges tax meeting to order. First, we will start with roll call. Will the clerk please call roll? Freddie Bryant. Here. Commissioner Garza. Here. Latasha Padilla. Mal Epinether. Here. Jonathan Nelson. Thomas Martin. Here. Thank you all for joining. We're going to go through a couple of housekeeping items. The first is approval of meetings, minutes from the last meeting, which was January thirteenth. Are there any corrections to the minutes? We got first motion on Freddie and second from Mel. All in favor. All opposed. So I will be hosting an event on June between the twelfth and the fourteenth. We will be hosting over a hundred and twelve teams that consist of the 25 over there. It consists of twenty-five players each team, all coming um being local and from Lubbock. Kansas City from Houston. So there is a date change due to uh the excess in and teams that we were already acquiring. We didn't expect this many to sign up at right up front. So we were giving them more time to have uh more teams playing also to maintain the fields in the back given that we'll be hosting more than expected. Uh we're trying to give some time to repair the fields to make sure we can host that large of an event. And so what were the dates again? June twelve, thirteen, and fourteen. So there are six youth categories. Okay. So from ages six to fifteen. Those are the youth categories. So between New Mexico, Texas, and Kansas, we're expecting a total of forty-eight teams. Um category, quarantyoche in total. So okay, but equipo. Oh, in cada equipo se permiten uh and there's fifteen players per team. Is there a uh adults as well? Correct. There's um in the adultos those categories per couple. Okay, so we have categories A and B that does not have a defined age group, and we have the veterans group that um veteranos. Veterans are um ages 35 and up. Okay. So it's just those. And what what's your start times and end times? No, el viernes de la six a las 9 de la noche. Okay.